Sentence examples for a firing party from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a firing party" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in a military context to refer to a group of soldiers assigned to carry out a firing squad execution or to perform a ceremonial salute.
Example: "The ceremony concluded with a solemn salute from a firing party, honoring the fallen soldiers."
Alternatives: "a firing squad" or "a salute detail".

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But last fall, Private Allen's remains were unearthed and identified, and on Tuesday he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors — including a colors team, a coffin team, a bugler and a firing party — as family members looked on.

But just before the New Year, I stood in the storm-howling graveyard at Shanganah – Bray Head looming through the mist – and watched the kind of funeral that generals can only dream about: the tempest rippling down the lines of soldiers, a firing party to one side of the cemetery, the Last Post played against the wind, the sword on the coffin covered with the flowing Tricolour.

A firing party of the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery led the gun carriage bearing the coffin to the cemetery.

It was followed by an internment at Western Cemetery in Ely, where a firing party fired a volley of shots in salute to Capt Healey.

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A Royal Marine firing party offered a three-gun salute, a bugler the Last Post.

Next, he showed us the backyard with remnants of a fire party the night before.

On 10 June a patrol designated Operation Faun Fare consisting of 7 Platoon, C Company under Lieutenant Robert Guest, accompanied the company commander Major Ivor Hodgkinson, the Intelligence Officer and a fire control party, left the company base at Serikin to mount an ambush on the Sungei Koemba river.

Director Milos Forman was originally spotted by producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz for his 1967 film The Fireman's Ball, a comedy-drama about a fire department party in a small town going disastrously wrong.

Eight thousand Unsullied stand ready to be bought, as Daenerys takes Drogon out on a chain like a fire-spitting party balloon and hands him over.

This was swiftly followed by a fire fete, boat party, roof top party, beach party, glow party, the actual carnival day and a closing party.

High-level leaders fired a party boss and mayor for negligence.

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